A true coppy of the Epilogue to Constantine the Great that which was first published being false printed and surreptitious / written by Mr. Dryden. Epilogue to Constantine the Great Dryden, John, 1631-1700. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A36707 of text R1683 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing D2392). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A36707 Wing D2392 ESTC R1683 12265205 ocm 12265205 58021 2240953514

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A36707) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 58021) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 181:25) A true coppy of the Epilogue to Constantine the Great that which was first published being false printed and surreptitious / written by Mr. Dryden. Epilogue to Constantine the Great Dryden, John, 1631-1700. Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692. Constantine the Great. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for J. Tonson ..., London : 1684. In verse. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. eng Constantine -- I, -- Emperor of Rome, d. 337 -- Poetry. Prologues and epilogues. Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century eebo A true coppy of the epilogue to Constantine the Great. That which was first published being false printed and surreptitious. Written by Mr. Dryden. Dryden, John, 1684 1 485 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2002-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-10 Sampled and proofread 2002-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-12 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A TRUE COPPY OF THE EPILOGUE TO CONSTANTINE the GREAT . That which was first Published being false printed and surreptitious . Written by Mr. Dryden . OUr Hero's happy in the Plays Conclusion , The holy Rogue at last has met Confusion : Tho' Arius all along appear'd a Saint , The last Act shew'd him a true Protestant . Eusebius , ( for you know I read Greek Authors , ) Reports , that after all these Plots and Slaughters , The Court of Constantine was full of Glory , And every Trimmer turn'd Addressing Tory ; They follow'd him in Heards as they were mad : When Clause was King , then all the World was glad . Whigs kept the Places they possest before , And most were in a Way of getting more ; Which was much as saying , Gentlemen , Here 's Power and Money to be Rogues again . Indeed there were a sort of peaking Tools , Some call them Modest , but I call e'm Fools , Men much more Loyal , tho' not half so loud ; But these poor Devils were cast behind the Croud . For bold Knaves thrive without one grain of Sence , But good men starve for want of Impudence . Besides all these , there were a sort of Wights , ( I think my Author calls them Teckelites ; ) Such hearty Rogues , against the King and Laws , They favour'd even a Foreign Rebel's Cause . When their own damn'd Design was quash'd and aw'd , At least they gave it their good Word abroad . As many a Man , who , for a quiet Life , Breeds out his Bastard , not to nose his Wife ; Thus o're their Darling Plot , these Trimmers cry ; And tho' they cannot keep it in their Eye , They bind it Prentice to Count Teckely . They believe not the last Plot , may I be curst , If I believe they e're believ'd the first ; No wonder their own Plot , no Plot they think ; The Man that makes it , never smells the Stink . And , now it comes into my Head , I 'le tell Why these damn'd Trimmers lov'd the Turks so well . The Original Trimmer , tho' a Friend to no man , Yet in his heart ador'd a pretty Woman : He knew that Mahomet laid up for ever , Kind black-eyed Rogues , for every true Believer : And , which was more than mortal Man e're tasted , One Pleasure that for threescore Twelve-months lasted : To turn for this , may surely be forgiven : Who 'd not be circumcis'd for such a Heav'n !

London , Printed for I. Tonson , at the Judge's Head in Chancery-lane , 1684.